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Cornucopia

Objects · Myth & story · Symbols

A horn of plenty in Greek and later Roman image. Not every harvest basket and not a grail.

Also known as horn of plenty

Hellenic religion

  • Cornucopia appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses tells Achelous’ broken horn becoming the horn of plenty. A named plenty-horn in that poem, not a grail, not a cup, and not the Sampo.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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